Batman (USA) di Tom King 2.0

[Bruce Wayne]

Numero "semplice" che mi è piaciuto abbastanza.

È sempre pericoloso andare a indagare le conseguenze legali dell'agire di Batman. Vediamo come King maneggerà la materia.

Ci sono un paio di momenti davvero meritevoli, su tutti l'incontro tra Bats e Gordon.

[Lul]

L'inizio è interessante e ben costruito

Spiacente, ma non sei autorizzato a visualizzare il contenuto degli spoiler.

Non è stato un numero "pazzo", ma l'ho trovato decisamente migliore rispetto al 50.

[Experience]

Numero davvero gradevole (#51) che getta le basi a qualcosa di interessante.

Spiacente, ma non sei autorizzato a visualizzare il contenuto degli spoiler.

Belli i disegni un po' spigolosi di Weeks ed i colori di Breitwiser ai quali fa sembrare che al posto di Bruce Wayne prenda piede Dylan Dog .

[Azrael]

Batman #51
Written by Tom King
Art by Lee Weeks and Elizabeth Breitweiser
Lettering by Clayton Cowles
Published by DC Comics
Review by Pierce Lydon
'Rama Rating: 9 out of 10

Hot off the biggest milestone issue this year, Tom King is putting Batman through his most harrowing trial yet: jury duty! Trust me, that only sounds a lot more tedious than it ends up being. King's run has thematically been about grounding Bruce Wayne in his own humanity - more man than bat, so to speak. And after being left at the altar, it's really anyone's guess how the Dark Knight would react. With a hearty assist from Lee Weeks and Elizabeth Breitweiser, King plumbs the icy depths of Gotham's justice system and comes away with an interesting opening chapter to his latest arc.

To call King's general oeuvre "character-driven" is probably the understatement of the century, right? The writer tends to eschew grandiose plot elements for more pointed examinations of character and relationship drama. After the failed Bat-Cat nuptials, it would have been very easy to pick up right from Bruce hopping off that rooftop, angsting his way through the city. But King opts to frame the possible rampage (I'll explain that in a minute) through the lens of a courtroom procedural. It's a side of Gotham that we don't often see, though we have seen it to a somewhat lesser effect in Sean Murphy's Batman: White Knight.

The difference here is that the court in White Knight is a means to an end - in order to get the plot rolling, Murphy needs to breeze through those proceedings. Here King's story hinges on the court as setting and plays with the idea of multiple accounts - in this case, Batman's, Jim Gordon's, and Mr. Freeze's - influencing how we understand the story. Sometimes, that plays to our expectations. For instance, we know that Batman doesn't have a license to perform autopsies. We know what Gordon's answer will be. But there's still a lot of tension in the defense's questioning. If we're generally on Batman's side, we tend to not think about the consequences of Gordon breaking protocol to catch a villain. It's one of those developments that's so obvious you wonder why it hasn't been explored more often, especially in an era influenced so heavily by Christopher Nolan's "realistic" Batman trilogy. Here we see how Batman's methods can sometimes work against him.

On the surface, this story looks fairly straightforward. But between the defense's questioning, Freeze's testimony, Batman's brutal methods during the night in question and an almost throwaway line from Gordon as he speaks to Dick Grayson - "You're not him. You're that other him." - the mystery begins to reveal itself. Do we just not recognize a grief-stricken Bruce who seems to be taking out his feelings on one of the only married (depending on whether the "New 52" origin is still canon) supervillains in his rogues gallery? Or could there possibly be someone else running around in a cape and cowl, mirroring the Dark Knight's dark night of the soul? That's the beauty in the construction of King's story here, and it's absolutely riveting when you get down to it.

Of course, King gets a bit of helps in telling his story from artist Lee Weeks and color artist Elizabeth Breitweiser. Weeks is no stranger to Gotham or Tom King. He turns in a powerful issue that really leans into the cinematic, nonlinear approach to storytelling that the script requires. Weeks has to smash-cut the courtroom scenes and some of the night of the crime scenes together, which is a pretty tall order in terms of maintaining the tone and propulsion of the book. But to his credit, Weeks mostly makes it work - if there's anything to really knock this issue for as a whole, it's that occasionally the segues from scene to scene aren't always the smoothest. But the acting in this issue and Breitweiser's clever coloring more than makes up for it - the best little detail being three panels of each of Freeze's alleged victims. Each one is colored in a distinct wash of either blue, red or yellow. Later when we see Freeze on the stand, we get echoes of those colors - blue in his uninjured eye, red in his bloodied one and yellow in a bandage on his face. It's a very subtle detail that really adds to depth of the story.

Regardless of how you felt about the last issue of Batman, this one reminds us just how good King can be. He's helped by some stellar collaborators in Weeks and Breitweiser, but the construction of this issue really sings. It's the kind of story that's perfect for the Dark Knight Detective - one that has an actual mystery embedded in it. Freeze is an interesting adversary for Bruce at this juncture thematically considering that the Cat just gave the Bat the cold shoulder. "Cold Days" is an exciting return to form for Tom King that does a lot to breathe new life into the second half of his purported 100-issue run.

[Kenshiro]

Batman 51 a.k.a.  Law and Order Batman Edition.

[Man of Steel]

Batman will return to his classic Hush era costume with Batman #53.
The in-story reason for the change is that Bruce feels a need to move on from his relationship with Catwoman.

Poi sappiamo che cambierà di nuovo.

King said his 100-issue plan for Batman was in place from the time he took over the book - and that DC does not interfere much with what he writes.

Molto bene.

[No Use For A Name]

Ottimo, cambio di costume.

[Man of Steel]

Yup, BATMAN IS Returning to His Classic Look and Trunks

Yup, Batman is indeed going back to his classic book, as confirmed Friday at Comic-Con International: San Diego.

Here's an updated look at Tony Daniel's Batman #55 cover and another unspecified image from Batman artist Lee Weeks.


Original story June 18 2018: DC Comics' solicited cover for September's Batman #55 shows the Caped Crusader in a costume much more reminiscent of his classic look than the Greg Capullo-designed suit he's sported since the onset of "Rebirth."

TLDR... Batman has his trunks back.

In the #55 cover by Tony Daniel, he's wearing a suit with a plain black Bat-symbol and trunks, as opposed to Capullo's design which incorporates a yellow border around Batman's symbol and lacks the trunks. A similar suit, with the more classic logo, appears on the cover of Heroes In Crisis #1.

However, the cover could constitute a flashback of sorts, with the solicitation for the preceding issue, Batman #54, mentioning a "stroll down memory lane" with Nightwing, who is also pictured on the #55 cover.

There's also the added wrinkle of Batman's look in the current Doomsday Clock limited series, which is set in the future of the DC Universe. In that story, Batman has yet another costume - one with the yellow oval on around Batman's emblem restored.

Superman returned to his classic costume (and trunks) with April's Action Comics #1000. At the current twice-monthly rate of Detective Comics, DC will reach #1000 in March 2019.

https://www.newsarama.com/40446-is-batman-going-back-to-his-classic-look.html

[No Use For A Name]

Forse anche troppo classico , sembra quello Golden Age.

[Arkin Torsen]

È come Anno Uno 
Forse si poteva fare a meno dei mutandoni, ma mi va bene lo stesso!

[Azrael]

Trunks

[Man of Steel]

Anche lui ha di nuovo i mutandoni per festeggiare DC #1000, visto che DClock dovrebbe terminare nel 2019 e visto che dopo faranno il grande ketchup, Bats e Supes hanno tutto il tempo del mondo per sfoggiare questi costumi per poi cambiare di nuovo, anche se dopo aver letto l'ultimo numero di DClock non ne sono così sicuro per Supes, poi non saprei...

[Experience]

Anche lui ha di nuovo i mutandoni per festeggiare DC #1000, visto che DClock dovrebbe terminare nel 2019 e visto che dopo faranno il grande ketchup, Bats e Supes hanno tutto il tempo del mondo per sfoggiare questi costumi per poi cambiare di nuovo, anche se dopo aver letto l'ultimo numero di DClock non ne sono così sicuro per Supes, poi non saprei...

Io gli avrei fatto indossare dei boxer, al posto dei mutandoni, piu' attuali.

[Leonard13]

Così è molto più Batman di come era con il costume di Capullo.

[Cosmonauta]

Troppo brutto Batman così, l'ho sempre trovato un po' ridicolo